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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Wimbledon 1948

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]

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Table: PART VIII.OUTWORK — SECTIONS 110 & 111.

PART VIII.

OUTWORK — SECTIONS 110 & 111.

Nature of workSection 110Section 111
No. of outworkers in Auggust list required by Sec. 110 (l) (c)No. of cases of default in sending lists to the CouncilNo. of prosecutions for failure to supply listsNo. of instances of work in unwholesome premisesNotices servedProsecutions
Wearing Apparel Making etc.11----
The making of boxes or other receptacles or parts thereof made wholly or partially of paper501----
Others——————
Total512————

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Number of addresses received from other Councils 38
Number of addresses forwarded to other Councils 29
Number of premises where outwork was carried on
at the end of 1948 56
Inspections of Outworkers' premises 55
Outwork in Infected Premises (Section 153 Public Health
Act, 1936) Nil.
OTHER MATTERS.
Failure to affix Abstracts of Act notified to H.M. Inspector
of Factories 8
Underground Bakehouses in use at the end of the year 3
The establishment of an underground bakehouse, in contravention
of Section 54 of the Factories Act, 1937, was discovered during the
year. The occupier of the premises readily discontinued the use of
this bakehouse when his attention was called to the contravention.
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